installing a GCC compiler onto a Docker Container

Question

I am trying to install mono package onto a Docker container, but mono requires git , autoconf, libtool, automake, build-essential , mono-devel, gettext packages.

the problem I am having is that libtool requires libc-dev, and libc-dev requires gcc compiler.

The docker container does not have any compiler installed, but my local machine does.

arcolombo@acolombo:~/Documents/bedgraph_dockerfile$ dpkg --list |grep    compiler ii  g++                                                                 4:4.8.2-1ubuntu6                                    amd64        GNU C++ compiler ii  g++-4.8                                                     4.8.2-19ubuntu1                                     amd64        GNU C++ compiler ii  gcc                                                         4:4.8.2-1ubuntu6                                    amd64        GNU C compiler ii  gcc-4.8                                                     4.8.2-19ubuntu1                                     amd64        GNU C compiler ii  hardening-includes                                          2.5ubuntu2.1                                        all          Makefile for enabling compiler flags for security hardening ii  libllvm3.5:amd64                                            1:3.5-4ubuntu2~trusty2                              amd64        Modular compiler and toolchain technologies, runtime library ii  libmono-compilerservices-symbolwriter4.0-cil                   3.2.8+dfsg-4ubuntu1.1                               all          Mono.CompilerServices.SymbolWriter library (for CLI 4.0) ii  libxkbcommon0:amd64                                         0.4.1-0ubuntu1                                      amd64        library interface to the XKB compiler - shared library ii  mono-mcs                                                    3.2.8+dfsg-4ubuntu1.1                               all          Mono C# 2.0 / 3.0 / 4.0 / 5.0  compiler for CLI 2.0 / 4.0 / 4.5 

so my question is , what is the easiest way to get a gcc compiler onto a Docker container? should I just create a volume of these compiler directories into my docker container?

The reason I think I may need it is because I am running a website, and the website executes a docker image directly.

Answer 1

In your Dockerfile:

FROM ubuntu # ... ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND noninteractive RUN apt-get update && \     apt-get -y install gcc mono-mcs && \     rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*